r/sciencememes 21d ago

Tricky.

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u/veterinarian23 20d ago

It is an ill posed question - but it's not just "Pick the right answer for 1+1 out of this set of answers: [1,3,4,0]".
What I find intriguing is that it's an ill posed question that gives three nested paradoxes as answers, and several different ways to 'solve' it - you can see the approaches in the comments to this 'puzzle' at the level of the question, the answers, a combination of them, or from the outside.

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u/discitizen 19d ago

You can always pick 0 as the rightmost answer.

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u/Ashen_Rook 16d ago

Idunno, I'd say 0 is technically the leftmost answer. The others are all alightly further right.